It’s now home to 122 students from the University of Minnesota – Duluth and 30 from St. Scholastica. Both have piled students into there before.

Each student shares a room with another student, has shuttle service to campus, has use of the motel’s facilities, and access to resident advisers and programming, just like in dorms. They even have a Facebook page.

About the blogger

Alex Friedrich reports on higher education issues for MPR News. Among the stories he has covered: the fall of the Berlin Wall, aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, 2003 Moscow suicide bombing and 2004 presidential elections in the Republic of Georgia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master’s in European political economy from the London School of Economics.